What It Takes To Become A Champion

By George B. Thompson

If you would attain greatness, take no little thoughts. (Author Unknown)

To be a champion, you cannot think small. You must currently push yourself to the outskirts of your comfort zone so that you can stretch and grow. True greatness is a dynamic state because you are constantly seeking out new challenges to tap into unused areas of your potential. Remember, God designed us all for greatness, but it’s our duty to tap into the potential that He placed in us.

When a champion has a meeting, they arrive 15 minutes early. They are the best performer on the job.

Champions constantly tap into greatness, because they have cultivated four key characteristics so well in their lives that using them is second nature. You will know you’re a champion when all four of these characteristics become second nature to you

Vision
Execution
Completion
Excellence

VISION: Champions see the future before it becomes the present. They cast out a vision of where they want to go and create a plan to get there. Most people are very good at dreaming, because they confuse dreams with vision. A dream only becomes a vision when you make it concrete by writing it down so that it no longer floats around in your head without any plans attached to it.

EXECUTION: Don’t talk about it be about it. Think does not build skyscrapers, execution does. Once you have thought up plans to achieve your vision, you must act upon it with conviction and urgency. You will lose your motivation, if you do not stay in execution mode. Your vision will revert back to a dream that will never be achieved. The YMCA is full of people who dream of being in the NBA. Stay in execution mode no matter what obstacles you face and keep moving forward.

COMPLETION: Be apart of the finishers club. No matter how well you start, it does no good if you do not finish.

EXCELLENCE: Champions do not cut corners because they are focused on greatness rather than quick fixes and get rich quick schemes. Excellence is a journey of constantly improving and believing good is not good enough. Whenever you are given the option to compromise on excellence pass

Take a moment to reflect and answer this question:

ARE YOU READY TO BE A CHAMPION?

WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK?

DO YOU HAVE A GOOD SOLID PLAN IN PLACE TO REALIZE YOUR DREAMS?

My goal is that you become A BETTER YOU in all that you DO!

Pastor George